Science & Industry

I wonder how many of these toons saying "things change, get used to it", would be okay with the elimination or nerfing of all the old BPOs which were created under the old invention lottery?

Things do change, but why do they always change in such as way as to not anger all of the most wealthy players in eve?

Things are going to change, yea, thats fine.

But they dont have to change without a good reason, and CCP Soundwave hasnt made any effort to justify or rationalise these changes.

Why datacores and FW, explain that CCP and we might have a basis for understanding.

I can see where you are concerned but if you look at Eve as a whole the rules have changed so many times this one is trivial. I might feel massive to you as it 'might' affect your income on a significant level (I'm assuming this is where you get a lot of your isk from). But this is just like them rebalancing Vangard Incursion sites, the Sanctum nerf, Drone Region changes (have you seen the price of T1 hulls since then?) or a whole list of other things. In a long running MMO the rules are going to change just as the developer rebalances the game, tweaks the things they believe need changing and generally tries to improve the game as a whole.

At first the market will go a bit crazy and then after a few months it will settle, then we will see how much it has affected the prices of datacores. You might find that through FW LP its not that profitable to redeem datacores (we don't know if it will be or not) and so people may not do it because there are other things that are better to redeem. So this will mean that RP is still the best way to get datacores and it might even mean that the prices go up. Wait and see, if its not a good way to make the majority of your isk then change the way you make isk and have this as an addition. There is a lot more out there in Eve than R&D agents.

What people are trolling you for is your general negativity and the tone of you post, not the actual content. You are assuming that this change can only be bad (even though you have tried to show the 'other' side of the argument), which it might not be.

If you really want to see how CCP can negatively affect the game for certain players find a titan pilot (or a former one) and have a chat to them.

If you spent years planning, training and missioning for research agents you are doing something very wrong. I think it took me a month or 2 per character to train, and mission run to get level 4 research agents. (And this was me playing a couple of days per week.) Not to mention I got a goodly amount of isk and faction for my trouble. That said I make a lot more isk on market trades and PI. Sure this change is going to impact my cores income, but I still have use for the skills. You can make a fair bit buying BPOs and researching them in station. (People say there aren't slots, but there are lots that have modest wait times in HS not to mention solts one jump into LS.)